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Anne Adams

Overview

Anne Adams, Professor Emerita, specializes in the two areas of continental African women’s writing and Afro-German cultural studies. Upon retiring from ASRC, she served as director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture, in Accra, Ghana, 2005-2010, while also teaching as Visiting Professor at the University of Ghana, Legon.

In Afro-German Cultural Studies she has translated Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out (Farbe Bekennen, Oguntoye, Opitz, and Schultz, eds.), 1992; Blues in Black and White (Grenzenlos und unverschämt, May Ayim), 2003. She is currently preparing an anthology of essays by Afro-Germans.